Archive for the ‘Agile’ Category
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
So after some hard thinking and business decisions I decided to go ahead and delay AgileDash SP and focus solely on Windows Phone 7 Application development. I am going to release about 6 applications for Windows Phone 7, one of them being completely free with Source Code available and even a video cast showing how it was all done. I think this is a huge decision and a pretty big change in direction with where Elucidsoft is going, but I think it opens up new opportunities as well. I definitely and absolutely plan to finish AgileDash SP, after the launch in October of Windows Phone 7 I will begin focusing again on AgileDash SP and getting it out the door.
I seriously believe Windows Phone 7 will be an important and huge platform, I also believe it will overtake Android eventually simply due to the rich developer toolset that Microsoft has to offer the apps for Windows Phone 7 will be higher quality, richer, and just typically more functional. Stay tuned for some more info on the apps I am going to release!
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Round 2 with the UI for AgileDash, and I am happy with how it looks now, next up is the integration with SharePoint 2007 which should be interesting. I still plan on using SPServices, but I could also write my own WCF service to act as a proxy to the SP Object Model, one is server side processing being relayed via Web Services, the other is Client Side Processing being relayed entirely client side. Decisions, decisions…
Let me know what you think of the UI…
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
AgileDash, our flagship product which is an Agile project management tool which we be capable of running in multiple platforms. The first platform AgileDash will be available on is Microsoft SharePoint, which we are naming AgileDash SP. AgileDash SP was originally planned to be released for the new and powerful Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform. However, as much as I want to develop against SharePoint 2010, most people and potential customers are still using 2007 and they will be for the near future. There are several reasons for this, the main reason is that SharePoint 2010 is 64 bit only. This is a good thing since it gives 2010 the ability to be more powerful by being able to scale vertically as well as horizontally. This also comes with a price to pay that a lot of customers are running 32 bit hardware still, they have heavy investments in this hardware and it will take time for them to convert over.
Now with all of that said, this was not a light decision on our part. SharePoint 2010 offered a rich client API for us to develop against with Silverlight and jQuery. SharePoint 2007 however does not offer this, and its extremely difficult to develop against when it comes to client side applications, in particular rich interface applications such as Silverlight. I ran across something that changed my decision drastically, Marc D Anderson has been working on a jQuery framework called SPServices that acts as a proxy to the SharePoint 2007 web services that lets you easily and naturally program against. He is actively developing this framework and it supports a large degree of functionality. I plan on working closely with Marc to develop and get this framework working in Silverlight.
I plan to start testing several scenarios in Silverlight calling out to the SPService jQuery library immediately. I will be posting about my findings on how this is working, what the performance is like, etc.
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
So I have tinkering with multiple types of UI to go with on AgileDashSP, and I thought it would be very cool if I could pull off a rich user interface while keeping functionality high, I would love to hear opinions if you think the sticky notes just complicate the UI. They can be scaled up and down as they are vector graphics, so I can make them smaller if needed, but you fit less information on them as they get smaller. I do plan on implementing a clever way to view the info at a quick glance if the text does get trimmed.
Please let me hear your feedback!
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